Wednesday (Sept 2)Film - Getting Away with Murder on Fox Movies at 11pm. Professor Jack Lambert (Dan Aykroyd) lives a peaceful, quiet life and is stunned when the media proclaims that his kindly old next door neighbor Max Mueller is really SS Colonel Karl Luger - a notorious Nazi war criminal nicknamed the Beast of Berkau. Naturally, Mueller and his dutiful daughter Inga (Lily Tomlin) insist it's a case of mistaken identity and his lawyers promise to tie up the case in the courts for years, allowing Mueller to live out his life in peace. Outraged by the prospect, Jack feels it is unacceptable for the Nazi to get away with murder.
THURSDAY (Sept 3)
Film - The punisher on Fox Movies at 1am.
Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) is a man who has seen too much death in his life. He has managed to beat considerable odds, and is finally moving out of the field and into a normal life with him wife, Maria, and young son, Will. However, something goes wrong on his final assignment and a young man, is inadvertently killed, it leads his angry father on a quest for vengence. This takes the form of a massacre at a Castle family reunion.
FRIDAY (Sept 4)
Documentary - Taboos: Touching Death On NGC at 9pm.
Our world is one of contrasts and extremes. The range and diversity of human behaviour almost defies the imagination. Shot in High Definition, the latest series of Taboo delves into the strange and sometimes disturbing practices of cultures around the world. Seeing death fills us with horror. Touching it is taboo. But what if touching the dead was your job? Could you exhume rotting corpses from graves to earn two dollars a day? Money, faith, or the search for the truth... what would it take for you to touch the dead?
SATURDAY (Sept 5)
Documentary - China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province on America Plus at 2pm.
A vivid and astonishingly candid look at the human toll of last year's devastating earthquake in central China, this 40-minute veritŽ documentary visits with the parents of deceased children from several district schools a few days after the disaster, sharing in their unimaginable grief at the loss of a child. Clinging to framed portraits of their young sons and daughters, parents now unite in a festering anger, attempting to understand why children were allowed in such shoddily constructed buildings, how government resources that could have been used on better construction might have been misdirected by local officials.
SUNDAY (Sept 6)
Film - The Women on Star Movies at 8 30pm.
An update of the 1939 classic, The Women chronicles the romances and relationships of a close-knit group of female friends. Holding this clique together is Mary (Meg Ryan), a happily married housewife. But when she learns that her husband is having an affair with a gold-digging shop assistant (Eva Mendes), Mary is forced to reassess her life. Seeking comfort and support from her friends, she soon discovers that her pals are dealing with their own relationship issues. Mary takes a journey of self discovery.
MONDAY (Sep 7)
Series - In Treatment season 2 (double episodes) on America Plus at 10pm.
Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions, the series centres around Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne), who recently divorced his wife Kate, and has moved from Maryland to a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. Rebuilding his practice while wrestling with some of the demons he left behind, Paul takes on several new patients, including the four seen in individual episodes each week. He also commutes to Maryland every Friday to continue his own sessions with Dr. Gina Toll (Dianne Wiest).
TUESDAY (Sept 8)
Film - Skills Like This on Super Movies at 11pm.
Everybody wants to be somebody. Max Solomon has faced the awful truth that he will never be a writer. But that doesn't mean that all his creative energy has to go to waste. In this intensive comedy three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realises that larceny might be his best skill.
